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April 2008
- Freeway Shootings Rattle Los Angeles
  
  newser | Los Angeles Times | Apr 1, 08 8:12 AM CDT
  
  A string of freeway shootings in Los Angeles County is causing more jitters than usual on its jam-packed arteries, the Los Angles Times reports. Windows of six cars were shot out by a mystery sniper wielding a BB gun yesterday, the day after a driver died from a possibly self-inflicted gunshot wound. A motorist was also shot and wounded on Saturday, and two others were killed last month. Police don't believe the incidents are connected. More »
  
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  California • Los Angeles • shooting • highways • motorists • road rage • highway patrol • highway shootings
March 2008
- Feds Probe SC Highway Cops for Bias
  
  newser | State (Columbia, SC) | Mar 21, 08 1:16 PM CDT
  
  Dash-cam videos that show the South Carolina Highway Patrol ramming black suspects with patrol cars and using racial slurs have triggered a federal probe, the State reports. In one of the five incidents, a trooper sent a suspect flying with his cruiser and then told a fellow officer, "Yeah, I hit him. I was trying to hit him." The state's US attorney is investigating. More »
  
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  police • South Carolina • racism • highways • federal investigation • police pursuits • highway patrol

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